Technical Project Manager (Senior to Staff level)

**Description** WORK LOCATION: Ann Arbor MI, Chantilly VA or Remote US (Eastern Time Zone) FLSA STATUS: Exempt SALARY RANGE: The anticipated salary range for this role is $127,000 to $165,000 annually. This range reflects a good faith estimate based on the targeted level for the role and typical compensation benchmarks across U.S. locations. Actual compensation may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographical location, and internal alignment. SUMMARY The Software Project Engineer provides program\-level technical coordination across multiple engineering teams and major subsystems. This role leads the integration strategy for complex engineering efforts, ensuring all disciplines (hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing) remain synchronized toward key program milestones and deliverables. The Software Project Engineer PE drives the sequencing, communication structure, and integration readiness required for multi\-phase product development. They identify cross\-team impacts early, maintain forward\-looking plans, and ensure engineering execution is organized, predictable, and aligned with the program’s technical objectives. This role also mentors the broader Project Engineering team and acts as a technical counterpart to program leadership. RESPONSIBILITIES The following job functions are a basic requirement but are not limited to and may be assigned other duties: * Lead technical integration across multiple subsystems or entire vehicle\-level engineering efforts. * Develop and maintain the engineering execution plan, including multi\-workstream schedules, integration checkpoints, build / release and milestone readiness tracking criteria. * Ensure cross\-functional alignment by running structured coordination cadences across hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing. * Own technical readiness for engineering reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring all disciplines meet entry/exit criteria. * Serve as the primary engineering integration counterpart to Program Management, providing visibility into progress, constraints, required decisions and software delivery risk across integration, regression, configuration and schedule. * Coordinate engineering deliverables that span multiple IPTs or disciplines, ensuring consistency and preventing disconnects. * Influence requirement interpretation, design impacts, and verification planning alongside systems engineering. * Plan and coordinate system\-level integration events, prototype builds, lab testing, flight test preparation and production release activities. * Identify roadblocks and bottlenecks to project execution and determine a course of action to eliminate or avoid them. * Develop and implement recovery plans for off\-schedule and unanticipated events * Drive structured communication practices across all teams, ensuring predictable updates, clear next steps, and documentation continui